Let us get real about Make America Great Again. People chant that and scream for Trump but here is the truth of the matter.
MAGA….Returning to a time of shameful laws and behaviors and injustice. This is an example an so much more at this link
Jim Crow Laws
“It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” —Birmingham, Alabama, 1930
“Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood.” —Nebraska, 1911
“Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.” —Missouri, 1929
“All railroads carrying passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations.”
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Reproductive Rights
In the mid-1950s, a woman went to an abortionist. She had been raped and now, pregnant, she sought his help.
As he prepared to perform the procedure, he said to her, "You can take your pants down now, but you shoulda' -- ha! ha! -- kept 'em on before."
For the service, he charged her $1,000, but, as Leslie Reagan recounts it in her essential book When Abortion Was a Crime, "offered to return $20 if she would give him a 'quick blow job.' "
Degrading? Yes. Humiliating? Certainly. And also: Expensive -- very.
Contrast that scenario with some of the at-home remedies undertaken by another woman, seemingly lacking the spare $1,000. "One woman," Reagan writes, "described taking ergotrate, then castor oil, then squatting in scalding hot water, then drinking Everclear alcohol. When these methods failed, she hammered at her stomach with a meat pulverizer before going to an illegal abortionist."
This was in 1954, when abortion was illegal in America. If you are one of the roughly 160 million Americans born after 1973 (the majority of population), abortion has been legal all of your life, though depending on where you live and your resources, actually getting one may not always be easy or even possible.
Why were women excluded, both from many individual states’ laws and from the 14th Amendment? Theframers of the Constitution—and many who followed them for more than the next 100 years—believed thatwomen were childlike and incapable of independent thought. They believed that women could not be countedon to vote responsibly, so they left women out of states’ voting laws and the Constitutional amendments thatgranted voting rights to African American men.As early as the 1840s, some women began speaking out, arguing that women should have the right to vote. Ittook until 1920 for that right to be added to the United States Constitution.
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The Draft
Between 1964 and 1973, 9,087,000 men and women would serve in the armed forces in some capacity. Of these, 2,594,000 would be deployed to Vietnam. 1,766,910 would be drafted into the military serving throughout the world. Most of those who were drafted went into the Army and less than 42,700 went into the Marine Corps.
From Wikepedia
The Great Depression
Because the Great Depression began in the United States and then spread around the world, the origins of the Great Depression are examined in the context of the United States economy. In the aftermath of World War I, the Roaring Twenties had brought considerable wealth to the United States and Western Europe.[17] The year 1929 dawned with considerable economic progress in the American economy. A small stock crash occurred on 25 March 1929, but the crash was stabilized. Despite signs of economic trouble, the market continued to improve through September. Stock prices began to slump in September, and were volatile at the end of September.[18] A large sell-off of stocks began in mid-October. Finally, on 24 October, Black Thursday, the American stock market crashed 11% at the opening bell. Actions to stabilize the market failed, and on 28 October, Black Monday, the market crashed another 12%. The panic peaked the next day on Black Tuesday, when the market saw another 11% drop.[19][20] Thousands of investors were ruined, and billions of dollars had been lost; many stocks could not be sold at any price.[20] The market recovered 12% on Wednesday, but the damage had been done. Though the market recovered from 14 November until 17 April 1930, it entered a prolonged slump. From 17 April 1930 until 8 July 1932, the market lost 89% of its value.[2
violent protests over a WAR we should not have been in.
Trump’s kids in cages
Trump’s idea of immigration law.
Families wait to be searched and loaded into transport vans taking them to the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station after they were caught in a group of immigrants that illegally crossed into the United States from Mexico in May of 2019, in Los Ebanos, Texas.
When U.S. Customs and Border Protection holds migrant children in custody, the child’s detention is supposed to be safe and short. That’s true whether the child is with a parent or without one.
But new data shows that over the last four years, detention times lengthened as the number of children held at the border soared to almost half a million. The detentions, which include both unaccompanied children and children with their families, peaked last year at over 300,000, with 40 percent held longer than the 72-hour limit set by a patchwork of legislation and a court settlement.
Child Lator
History of child labor in the United States—part 1: little children working
There was a time in this country when young children routinely worked legally. As industry grew in the period following the Civil War, children, often as young as 10 years old but sometimes much younger, labored. They worked not only in industrial settings but also in retail stores, on the streets, on farms, and in home-based industries. This article discusses the use of child labor in the United States, concentrating on the period after the Civil War through the rise of the child labor reform movement.
The September 1906 edition of Cosmopolitan magazine recounts a story once told of an old Native American chieftain. The chieftain was given a tour of the modern city of New York. On this excursion, he saw the soaring heights of the grand skyscrapers and the majesty of the Brooklyn Bridge. He observed the comfortable masses gathered in amusement at the circus and the poor huddled in tenements. Upon the completion of the chieftain’s journey, several Christian men asked him, “What is the most surprising thing you have seen?” The chieftain replied slowly with three words: “little children working.”2
Presidential Assassination
Assassinations of Leaders from MLK , RFK, JFK and attempted assassinations/
This was no little stuff. This was happening all the time in days past that many of us remember.
Bush’s Iraq War
The Vietnam War
Protests
Child Labor
The Great Depression
Suffrage
Fight for Equal Rights.
JUST WHAT PART OF all of this does Trump and his following want to return to?
MAGA STANDS FOR GOING BACKWARD IN TIME OF TURMOIL
Every time I see a MAGA hat or slogan I want to jerk it off a head and stomp on it or hear Trump issue those words make Civil liberty lovers want to vomit.